Good luck ranking up a few times in the next week or two and not having enough crystals to buy mk7s... FYI.. you have way too many turrets and hulls for your rank. You'll never be able to upgrade all of those. Pick a couple combos and stick with those.

Containers are false hope for F2P tankers. Among 2 accounts, since augments were added to containers, I've gotten ONE augment - cold resistance for a mammoth I don't own. Yeeehaaa. Game was way better before ODs were introduced. Now we might as well play Super Mario Kart - cuz that is what it feels like. The ODs are too powerful and generated way too often. More than 1/2 the players rely solely on ODs to accomplish anything. They should be available at MAX two times per battle - use them wisely. We've had Tankers Day, Xmas, etc for years - since before I started playing in 2015. Those are not new changes. Challenges and similar events like WAR were introduced to appease no-lifers and buyers. The only players that actually see the full rewards from those are the grinders who play 4-8 hrs per day. And buyers - you don't complete Challenges without Premium AND Battle Pass. The first WAR (or two) actually had meaning for ALL players - but then they changed them and made them a lot like mini-Challenges. Oh - and the Challenges have a side-effect of ruining battles. Many players just ignore the actual battle format and play TDM. They really don't care if their team wins so long as they get 3 their 3 stars. If it looks like they won't get 3 stars they bail early and look for a new battles. Challenges are terrible.

Well that happens when you don't upgrade your current equipment. You could have a higher GS but it all depends on what you do with your accrued crystals. For example - your protection modules are weak for your rank. If they were mk4+ your GS would be higher. And... you have way too many turrets for a Lt. General. Should have a max of 4 at that rank - the crystals you spent on all those items could have upgraded the items you use the most.

The crystal rewards in PRO are not worth it. Tankers are not in Pro-battles for the rewards.

Lots of garbage battles... 8 vs 6 and even 8 vs 5. Sooo many goose-eggs on the idle players on my team. Not worth playing.

Why? Gotta be honest - I just don't get parkour... Has no attraction for me. At all.

He just literally admitted that paint separation was good. At the time of separation, many players who owned legacy paints got shafted by the Devs. Maybe not everything is bad - but - over the past 3-4 years the bad changes far outweigh the good.

Yeah, it's finally time to park all my non-Legend accounts.

Through walls and around corners is lag. The computer still thinks there is LOS or within range when it is not.

with a 2:1 boost of xp to crystals any low-mid rank player not getting the noob bonus will quickly fall behind. Those players will quit the game because they can't buy competitive equipment. Not to mention they will be ranking faster than they gain skills. Slower progression allows the players to develop skills. Does TO not want the new players to stay? I thought player retention was one of the goals. Guess not?

The Xp-to-crystal ratio before this announcement was already lopsided in favor of XP. Now they widen that gap. "experience will increase to x4, and the funds will stay at x2" How do you not understand this? ?

From low to mid-rank? The division of battle-funds is terrible. Unless you play with lots of friends/groups you will end up on losing team more often than not. And the losers get almost nothing in funds. Would take forever to afford upgrades or new equipment. No - Pro-battles are where players go to get away from MM for a while and just enjoy some uncomplicated battles. Not a place to rank up and generate income.

If they are smart they will just quit.

Ares has no ground-force friction. Thus it has little/no ability to resist being pushed. It has mass and thus could have a lot of momentum (p=mv). But this is not that kind of game.

And.... they just doubled-down on their stupidity...

I agree.

I disagree. "enforcing" combinations is in no way better than letting me choose my combos. Modules have been reduced in effectiveness by more turrets, ODs, drones and even augments. They are hardly OP. And knowing what protections your enemy has just by a paint is not better. That's like saying it's good to see the star and know when enemy has OD ready. I'm sure mammoth's and wasps just love that...

Except for the buyers - which is by design.

Analyzed what data? Data from 90% Legends and 10% other? Guess TO does not care about getting new players to join the game and stay. Why the heck would any new player stay in this game when they will be ranking at double the rate of their crystal income? You guys are nuts. My other account stays parked until this lunacy ends.

They don't want all tankers to be able to afford them. See below. With the increase in prices tankers have to do one of the following - have fewer augments OR spend $ to make up the difference. Not all will spend $ but some will.

How is this a bad thing?

Two reasons, 1) The Devs want to generate more $ 2) many augments are direct upgrades where the positives far out-weigh the negatives.

Why are items in my garage organized differently now? I used to have purchased items on the far left. Now it's a mixture of purchased items and non-purchased items. How Does it get fixed so I don't have to scroll through 14 items to find the turret I want?

what is 10k +? 11,000? 9k or 11k... it's low - especially compared to 2-3 years ago. Does not matter if they advertise and bring in new players. Once those new players realize what a huge disadvantage they have they will quit the game and leave by WO5. The only players that will be left in the game are current Legends who like the xp multiplier so they can get 40k bonus more often. The game will not be sustainable with just them - no way they could sell enough.

You gain more experience than crystals, especially when you take into account no mission rewards. This Legend account plays LOTS of Pro-battles because I prefer no-supply no-OD battles. More skill. Marshal account will not play Pro or MM. Have 175k crystals, 13 Containers and 17 weekly containers. Will open them and spend on the hopefully 50% sales. Then park it and wait.